One of the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about dear our country by those in the diaspora is on insecurity. My general answer has always been that the state of our insecurity is not as bad as what it is being orchestrated to be. While it is a vague answer, deliberately so, it is not […]

Nigerian elections never end. But the cycle gets into overdrive roughly one year before a fresh general election. This is somewhat understandable. Politicians seeking re-election and those who want to displace them are high on political testosterone. It’s their season of sowing wild oats, casting nets, hosting conclaves, joining covens, and forging alliances for the good, […]

SOME readers of this column would be absolutely right if they conclude that writing on corruption in Nigeria is a waste of time. It might be, but what prompted a fresh interest in a national problem that has defied solutions forever are two developments earlier in the week. First one was a report by Transparency International, […]

Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of  United States, US, soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 an additional information was that 200 American soldiers areA being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]

President Donald Trump regularly insults and     discriminates against black people; and I don’t understand why African heads of state are not giving him much – or any in some cases – serious pushback. When racists closely linked to Trump depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes on his social media account, he refused to apologise […]